* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24:00, 29 April 2012 (UTC).
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Scott Kenneth Chipperfield (born 30 December 1975 in Sydney,[2]New South Wales) is an Australian internationalfootball (soccer) player who currently plays as a midfielder for Swiss club FC Aesch. His 2010 FIFA World Cup profile describes him "as a talented attacker with great physical ability and an eye for goal."[3] He is also known for his versatility in playing in both right and left midfield and as a left sided defender.

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Personal life

Chipperfield was born to Kenneth and Dale Chipperfield in Wollongong, New South Wales. He is of English descent and holds dual Australian-Swiss citizenship, having lived in Switzerland since signing for FC Basel in 2001. He has said that he would be willing to return to Wollongong to play in the future, should a bid to gain a Wollongong based team in the A-League be successful.[4] As a boy, Chipperfield supported Liverpool. During his playing days at Wollongong he worked as a School Bus driver part-time.[5]

At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Chipperfield played an integral role in the Australian midfield and defence, he was considered to be one of Australia's best players at the tournament. Therefore, he was subject to an unsuccessful bid by Charlton Athletic to obtain his services. But in July 2006 FC Basel announced that he had signed a three-year contract extension. At the end of this season Chipperfield played in the Cup Final in the Stade de Suisse and he received his third Cup Medal as Basel beat FC Luzern 1:0.

Chipperfield won the national Double for the second time in 2008, it was his fourth Cup title and his fourth League title. As Basel qualified for the UEFA Champions League, after a six-year absence, in 2008, Chipperfield was one of only three survivors of the squad that competed in the competition in 2003, the other two being Ivan Ergić and Benjamin Huggel. On 13 September 2008, he came on as a substitute for Orhan Mustafi during Basel's 2–0 defeat of FC Lucerne at St. Jakob-Park, to make his 200th league appearance for Basel. He also scored the second goal of the match. In January 2009, he was set to sign for Hertha BSC Berlin of the German Bundesliga, but the move fell through on the advice of medical staff.[6]

At the end of the 2009–10 season and 2009–10 Cup campaign Chipperfield achieved his third Double with the club. In April 2011 the club announced a further one-year contract extension.[7] To that date he had played 367 competition games for the club, scoring 83 goals. At the end of the 2010–11 season Chipperfield won his sixth League Championship title.

On 18 May 2012 FC Basel announced on their homepage that the contact with Chiperfield would not be extended.[11] He is the Basel all-time record holder of titles with the club, with seven Swiss National League A/Super League and six Swiss Cup honours.

FC Aesch

On 1 June 2012 it was announced he had signed a short term contract to play for Illawarra Premier League club Tarrawanna.[12][13] Nevertheless, after a few weeks a move to the Swiss club FC Aesch was revealed by various media and confirmed.

He is perhaps best known in Australia for his loyal and somewhat unexpected appearance at the 2002 OFC Nations Cup in New Zealand, a tournament which was marred by the financial turmoil of the then Soccer Australia. The non-existent financial contribution meant that the Australian players had to pay their own way to get to New Zealand. Chipperfield became the only one of Australia's large European contingent to answer the call and perform for his country in their time of need.